Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-05-28

much was done in his line for Frost
burg hardware interests. He had
hardly landed, however, before r. G..
Colborn, manager of the Mammoth,
struck out eastward on long errand
combining the business Of buying more
hardware with the pleasure of run
from home. Lively times in the hard
ware trade ahead for Frostburg-sure.
Thomas J. Crump, an attache of
President Cleveland's former law Of
fee in Buffalo, N. Y, is on a visit to
friends here. He is Frostburg boy
who has worked his way up, and he is
still working and rising.
Miss Annie Wehner is at home from
Mt. Pleasant, Pa.
Walter Edwards, one of our leading
merchants, is PROSTATE with sickness.
Mrs. W. J. Gooding and Miss Agnes
T. Davis are in Washington enjoying
city life.
Joseph Timmens, of this place, was
one of the delegates to the diocesan
convention of the Protestant Episcopal
church, in session at Baltimore this
week.
Judge Douglas, of Homecoming, was
ir town this afternoon.
j. Nimrod Myers, seriously hurt at
the Savage Mountain fire brick works
last week, sat up awhile Thursday.
He continues to improve.
Brectties.-The building containing
John Chambers and William Lewis
grocery stores has been greatly i'm
proved by the change in front.
Excavation continues for Nickel's
proposed new building.
The festival and suppers of the NJ.
E. Church, South, and the English
! Baptist Church, succeeded well.
The town Council will meet Monday,
June 6, to hear appeals from assess
ments of property.
w. G. Boughton has removed into
John N. Benson's residence on the
Avenue. Mr.. Benson has left town
and now lives in the "Alger house" at
Bowery Furnace.
D. G. Percy's advertisement, insert
ed last week, "still holds good" he
says. Look at it again this week.
The original poem, "When All is
Said," was called out by the poem
published last week entitled "When
Am Dead" The writer is resident
of Frostburg-one whose undoubted
talent we could wish might grace our
columns with more frequency.
Book agents plenty. Books high.
"Mapul Sugar" has gone to the
Queen City Courier. Sorry to loss
him.
! Cold weather. "Snow ball season."
Thoburr Pest continues its generous
invitation to "the gray" to join "the
blue" in Memorial Day exercises.
There are so very few veterans of the
Lost Cause in town, however, that it
is hard to persuade them into making
very small display. ga corporal's
guard" multiplied by four, is all that
the quondam defenders of the Con-
federate note could muster.
The sample copies sent out are
bringing in the new subscriptions in a
hurry.
J. Porter Sha ffer, son of II. B.
Shaffer, of this place, was thrown
from wagon near the school building
No. yesterday and painfully stunned.
He rested well last night and the fam
lily regard his condition as improved
this morning.
The New York store will open on or
about June 10. See "new business
locals
County Ners.-The governor will
take up the application of Michael E.
Malone, of Westernport, for a pardon,
next Thursday.
Alden E. Everstine, of Cumberland,
has been appointed a guager for this
district under the Internal Revenue
department.
T. Walter Long and Miss Lulie
Seiss, daughter of j. Frank Seiss, of
Cumberland, were married Wednes-
day morning.
Albert Nichols, a young miner, was
killed yesterday afternoon in one of
the mines near Homecoming.
Robert Wilson, of Piedmont, W.
Va, and Miss Sarah Watson, Of
Pekin, this county, were married at
Homecoming last Monday.
The county commissioners meet
Monday, June 6, to make the levy for
this year.
The Sunday school convention Of
Cumberland district, NJ. E. Church, in
session in Cumberland during the
week, was largely attended, and an
interesting time had.
Samuel E. Lynch, Of Homecoming,
, has been appointed deputy Register Of